Soundtrack News
The Thirty-Five Percent Rule: how a film score earns its Oscar nomination
The Academy's Music Branch does not judge a score by ear. It judges a cue sheet, and the math has to clear a fixed line before taste ever enters the room.
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Composer assignments, score release dates, replaced composers, awards shortlists and label announcements across film, television and game music.
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BMG and Concord to Merge as Rights Consolidation Reshapes Scoring
The BMG-Concord merger cleared US review in June 2026, and SOCAN agreed to buy CMRRA in July — a season of consolidation that reaches into the world of score and song rights.
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Rocky at 50: Bill Conti's Score Returns to the Concert Stage
A 50th-anniversary tour screening the 1976 film with live orchestra opened in Chicago on May 16, with more dates set for November.
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Consoles in the Concert Hall: How Game Soundtracks Became a Release Story
From chiptune cartridges to pressed vinyl and orchestral nights at the Royal Albert Hall, game music has built its own release and concert economy — one whose milestones are now easy to date.
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The Vault Opens: why soundtrack box sets keep finding lost film music
Archival soundtrack box sets recover scores that streaming never carried — and the announcements of 2026 will follow a pipeline that has barely changed in forty years.
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Film Music Takes the Concert Stage in 2026
The BBC Proms puts screen music back in the Royal Albert Hall, Santa Barbara plays the Hollywood love themes, and London gets a Matilda anniversary with David Newman conducting.